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LOT 1337
Syro-Hittite Terracotta Fertility Figure Group
EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 in. (37.2 grams, 84 mm).
Modelled in the half-round on a low conical base, three stylised beaked heads with pointillé headdresses.
ProvenanceEx private collection, London, UK, 1969-1999.
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Heavy Luristan Bronze Dish
13th-7th century B.C.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
Comprising a shallow body with sharply sloping walls and wide, everted rim. 712 grams, 19.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. -
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Achaemenid Silver Phiale with Central Rosette
5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,705
Squat lotiform bowl with wide everted rim, central domed mesomphalos with rosette detailing, some restoration to the rim; with custom-made box. 240 grams, 13.7 cm wide
Ex London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s. Private collection, London, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13067-248447.
This bowl is possibly part of a set of nearly identical vessels, probably used at the table of a high-status household, potentially that of a satrap. Persian governors (satrapes) used banquets to display their wealth and power by imitating royal banquets. It was a great honour for them to receive a drinking vessel such as this as a gift from the King of the Kings, thereby establishing their status as royal dinner guests. No doubt it took practice to drink adeptly from a vessel like this, yet the omphalos in the base would have made it easier to hold with one hand, with the middle finger hooked inside the indentation and the thumb stretched out to grip the vessel at or near the rim. -
Western Asiatic Silver and Bronze Dress Pin with Birds Group
1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising a silver round-section tapering shank, head formed as a pair of birds with three pierced ribbed triangular sections; bronze with round-section tapering shank, head formed as a pair of opposite facing birds with incised decoration. 6.08 grams, 11.7 cm
Ex property of an Essex, UK, gentleman collector. From the private collection of a Colchester, UK, gentleman.
